I joined Talking T-Guage a while back and have been enjoying reading your posts. There's some amazing work going on out there. It's been educational and inspiring.

Here's my contribution to the forum. I've been working on a small portable display model with a single loop of track with a tunnel and 2 girder bridges (waiting for the second one to arrive) spanning a rocky ravine. The model will be housed in a temporary box for now. Working on storage compartments, power supply and interior lining. I shall update progress when I have time.

Coooooool! That landscape looks really stunning! Very impressive small layout. I you do not anyway have that plan, I would actually add some real stone ballast to the tracks to make them more connected to the surrounding landscape. In your images - which are btw superb as well - the sctachbuild landscape looks thousand times batter than the components you had to buy

Kupzinger wrote:Coooooool! That landscape looks really stunning! Very impressive small layout. I you do not anyway have that plan, I would actually add some real stone ballast to the tracks to make them more connected to the surrounding landscape. In your images - which are btw superb as well - the sctachbuild landscape looks thousand times batter than the components you had to buy

Looking forward to seeing more!

CheersKupzinger

Thanks Kupzinger,

I've added some ballast to the track. Waiting for the bridge to arrive then all of the track assembled and secured for final ballasting. The edges of the model need to be trimmed with a band saw and clad with thin plastic sheet to fit perfectly inside the box. At the moment it's very tight. A few more hours work and it should be ready for display. I'll post some pictures soon.

Nutter wrote:That is a very tidy bench curious about the small module with the y point.

Tidy bench indeed. Not my workspace so I have to keep a tidy ship. I take it you mean the small model at the window? That was a tester. Trying out the back painted acetate river technique. We're on a low budget here.